The Stuff of Life
We all love things, don’t we? Things in the literal, corporeal, piled-in-a-heap sense: plates, shoes, books, chairs, necklaces, models. But what makes us love t...
Tag: material culture
Objectivity
Recently I’ve had more than my share of time to think about museums and objects, and what they mean to me and why I love them, and have dedicated my life to the...
Ceci n’est pas une assiette
Last weekend, Drunk Tailor and I delivered the Giant to his new life as a college student back in New England, and paid a call on of my oldest friends, a 96-yea...
Style Council
One of the critiques leveled at historic house museums is that they’re often “frozen in time,” specifically a particular moment, rather than r...
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